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Dutch Sakai SIG

Dutch Sakai SIG. Sakai Special Interest Group NL December 5th , 2007 Newport Beach, CA http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com. What is Sakai SIG NL?. Informal community, started in July 2006, hosted by SURF Foundation Coordinator (1 day/week) ~ 6 meetings annually

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Dutch Sakai SIG

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  1. Dutch Sakai SIG Sakai Special Interest Group NLDecember 5th, 2007Newport Beach, CAhttp://sakai-nl.blogspot.com

  2. What is Sakai SIG NL? • Informal community, started in July 2006, hosted by SURF Foundation • Coordinator (1 day/week) • ~ 6 meetings annually • Work plan: communication, PR, exchange of experiences, shared roadmap, facilitating networking, localization of software • Website / weblog: just to inform those that do not know (yet)

  3. Meetings • In Utrecht, @ SURF Foundation • Usually ~15 attendants • Education Institutions and commercial companies • ‘Fixed’ agenda items: • Round table of participating organisations • Presentations of Pilots, Production environments • Sakai related announcements

  4. Sakai at our institutions Education • University of Amsterdam (Sakai & OSP) • University of Utrecht (evaluating Sakai) • Saxion (Piloting Sakai) • Hotel school The Hague (Piloting Sakai • Leidse Onderwijs Instellingen (LOI) • Academia Vitae Lib Arts (evaluating Sakai) • > 20 community colleges (!!)

  5. Sakai at our institutions Commercial • Portfolio4u (OSP) • A new spring (Sakai ASP, development) • Stoas (Sakai OSP) • Edia (Sakai tools, development) • Omix (Sakai ASP, development) • Koopal Advies (Consultancy)

  6. Dutch facts and figures • VLE in primary and secondary education: very fragmented market • Higher Ed: large market share of Blackboard (~ 50 %), plus local players • HE: Total of ~60 institutions, 500 k students • Within HE: some 3-5 institutions that are evaluating Sakai • Commercial interests in Sakai, high activity and production

  7. Results Sakai SIG NL • QA (UvA) • Localization & Internationalization (I18N & L10N) • General requirements for tools • Requirements and standards for OSP • European (Dutch) requirements: Bologna, Lisbon • PR, workshops & seminars by SIG • Cooperation between commercials and educational institutions (!) • Some tool development

  8. Sakai SIG NL – open issues • Tool localization • Convincing decision makers to adopt to Sakai O.S.

  9. Challenges Sakai SIG NL • ‘Hesitation’ for O.S. in Higher Ed. Management • Legacy VLE’s • STRONG competition of MS Sharepoint • The role of Surf Foundation…(Financing and Microsoft Promotion) • Resources: Finding dedicated Sakai-professionals • 2nd ‘big’ university choosing Sakai

  10. What’s next • Check out: • http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com • Wiki: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/EUROSAKAI/Home • Collab: DG: Euro Sakai • Let’s talk: leave your business card / email address

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